The most recent test for NASA’s Orion capsule parachute system at the Yuma Proving Ground was postponed for two days. But a successful test did (eventually) take place. Maya Springhawk Robnett of the Arizona Science Desk was at the Yuma Proving Ground for the test…

Yuma Proving Ground, the U.S. Army’s weapons testing and training military installation near the city of Yuma, is coming up on its 75th anniversary in February. And the proving ground has already begun preparations. For the Arizona Science Desk, Maya Springhawk Robnett reports…

To send something into space, the accepted technique is to launch it with a rocket. In the 1960s, however, a Canadian visionary proposed the radical idea to simply shoot through the atmosphere—with a giant space gun. Maya Springhawk Robnett of the Arizona Science Desk reports.